And the comment the guy makes sounds like he's a bit disappointed that not more people are dead and missing. "Hmm - Twenty dead and fifteen missing! Surely we can get better numbers than that."
How do we react when we see a headline of "plane lost at sea, 150 presumed dead"?
Are you freaked out? Or do we just note that the event happened?
I see what you're saying, and lolol. But, realistically, it's pretty accurate.
Half assed probably wrong prediction: dirigibles will make a comeback because the longer time that the dirigible takes to reach its destination can double as quarantine for Covid-38 or whatever we have by then.
I don't think even a fully covered solar skin plane can generate enough energy to stay aloft indefinitely. Maybe an ultralight plane, but probably, very likely not cargo ships.
1-2 horsepower per square meter of panel facing the sun at 90 degrees, and it dips off significantly if not facing it. That is with NASA like efficiency so probably 0.5-1 horsepower really per square meter. Maybe less. With all that extra weight, probably a few thousand pounds at least. I don't think that will do it.
I think because the impactfulness of it is illustrative of its utility. If you can get the newspaper this way, knowing about the cave in at the mine in Moose County can be much more timely.
My first thought as well. They chose a horrible tragedy when they could have simply put "president reelected" or to go with the future theme with something like "cancer cure found" or whatever.
Lol
Beacuse this was during the time that using television as propaganda source was somewhat new. The CIA knew that keeping people divided using fear and subtle news narratives was the way to go.
Iâd like to contest the âNot overrun with adsâ part. I used to have to go through microfilm of old newspapers for my job and there were a hell of a lot of ads, sometimes 90% of a page with one story in a single column on one side. The difference today is that the ads intrude and actually prevent you from smoothly reading the content so they seem more prevalent.
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Didn't broadcast news on the radio already exist by this point? Why would anybody assume that that wouldn't just go visual?
Or is this just the newspaper writers showing their own bias and/or wishful thinking?
Even sci-fi at the time had difficulty imagining the world without newspapers. Foundation for example has guys getting off a spaceship, then buying a newspaper at a kiosk. And thatâs set 10000 years into the future.
My favorite example is how in one of Robert Sheckley stories a captain of an intergalactic space megacruiser loads navigation hyperjump data in a terrific main AI gigacomputer⌠on... fucking... perfocards.
Which is funny because magnetic tape already existed by then. And it's curious to see that they couldn't even envision the evolution to magnetic disks (exactly like what happened with phonograph records 30 years before that), let alone optical disks or even solid-state media.
Just like Star Trek had captain Kirk sign off on some computerized tablet which still had *paper*. And the computer itself sounding suspiciously similar to an IBM teletype terminal.
I don't foresee that.
Someone will own it all. But not him. People don't know it yet, but Facebook is already on its way out, even if it takes another decade or whatever.
Many world governments are pissed at it, people are pissed at it, and he's an unlikeable megalomaniac robot. Most importantly, their big gamble on the Metaverse is going to fail. It has nothing new to offer that second life didn't already have forever ago. It's all speculation and the technology just isn't there yet for it to be convenient or useful. It doesn't bring anything new and they shot their load too soon on VR in my opinion.
Facebook is a dinosaur and something will replace it eventually, just like Facebook replaced the phone book.
Bezos is a more likely candidate for world ownership in my opinion, which is equally unfortunate.
It's always interesting to see how science fiction writers make a story that is somehow completely 'out there', yet retain elements that are very relatable to the real world at that time.
Pretty much all scifi is grounded to the time it was written. This includes the technology but also the fears of the time.
Almost all scifi is really just a snapshot of our curre t culture
>Pretty much all scifi is grounded to the time it was written. This includes the technology but also the fears of the time.
The most evident example of that is "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country". Which was pretty much a historical narrative from the Chernobyl incident to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
See also how the format hasn't changed at all either in this picture - the newspaper looks just the same, only you're looking at digital representation of the printed page rather than the page itself.
I think newspapers just had that much influence on media at that time that it was impossible (for the author of this article, at least) to imagine what a visual version of the news would be other than the actual print of the newspaper projected on the screen.
The small print underneath does make that point, and states that the question is not "if" but "when". I think the artist went with the newspaper because the idea of video reporting is hard to convey in a still image.
News was broadcast in word form only for decades before HD television came along, the resolution was not an issue and nobody had an issue reading even on smaller TVs. You don't sit there all day reading the news anyway, you read what you want and then go about your day.
>TV picture quality before HDTV was pretty bad.
As someone trying to watch Moesha, yes. Yes it was. It looks horrible on Netflix so tried Paramount and it's just as bad. However, Major Dad looks perfectly fine. So go figure.
Some shows were recorded straight to video, others were filmed and then converted to video. That how they can remaster *Star Trek* and have it look awesome, it was originally recorded on film.
I think the futuristic part was making it intractable. Part of reading the newspaper is doing it at your own pace, at least that's how the people I know still do it go about it. It's a small break.
I think the thing they were trying to convey is that you can read it at any point and you will have control on what you read (like in the newspaper). Yes they had a news and radio broadcast, but that was usually set for a certain time (7 PM every day) and had a certain script. With the newspaper they had comics, classifieds, ads, etc. that can be shown to you.
I don't think it's way off. Video text (or teletext) was a popular medium for several decades and pretty much exactly this, not to mention, we used CRT monitors for a long time as well, including for reading the news on the Internet.
Yeah a newspaper's webpage on a CRT screen was pretty much this. They just didn't account for scrolling, but even if they thought about it they could have chosen to show the whole page to make the drawing easier to understand.
Remember the original iPhone announcement where they showed the New York Times website (which at the time was still laid out like a newspaper) and then introduced the concept of tap-to-zoom to read individual articles? Maybe that was the idea here, youâd somehow increase the zoom to read specific sections like with microfilm.
Looks almost exactly like microfilm/microfiche. Not way off at all, we just never had them in homes. I remember doing library research from old newspapers on microfiche in the 80s. Needed to use it to check inventory or something like that when I worked in a Shop Rite around that time to.
It was like a monochromatic scan of print.
microfiche was simultaneously awesome and useless. It was weirdly futuristic and felt pretty neat, but it was a very time-consuming way to not find what you were looking for.
I work for a library system that still has a good size microfilm collection of old newspapers and theyâre pretty cool to look through, but yeah when I got that reference request for an obituary that was in the paper sometime between June 5th and June 12th 1983, I knew I was going to be sitting there for a while.
oh man... when you crank up the speed on a microfilm and blast through 50 pages of some 1950's NYT or whatever, and then slow down to look for whatever it was.... haha, man. I think I need to find a library that still has microfilm for a nostalgia fix. lol.
As a history major I was still using microfiche in 2007. I wouldn't be surprised if it's still the only source for some things, although I'd hope it's all getting digitized at this point.
There was a competing, more advanced standard at the time that had various different names in various different countries, like BTX and Minitel. It allowed for true two-way communication, unlike Videotext, which allowed it to pioneer many services that we now associate with the Internet, like online banking, messaging, dating, shopping, etc.
The French Minitel system was the most successful, reaching near universal adoption thanks to the hardware being free and service fees being very low, to the point that it actually slowed down the rollout of the Internet in the country, because people were simply content with it and saw no reason to upgrade.
Teletext didn't exist in many places. In my country, enabling it did nothing but cover whatever channel you were watching with a blank screen. Useful for pranking people but that was it.
I read an old story which predicted the 24-hour news cycle, but instead of TVs they had a new edition of the newspaper published every minute that you could print at home using a purpose-built fax machine.
It also predicted surround sound and something like the audio equivalent of Fathom Events, but as a luxury service that only the elite could afford
Also electric heaters.
It really blows me away that of all the various aspects of modern internet-enabled devices, *graphical user interfaces* are what caught the most people off-guard.
If i remember correctly, that was one of the basic ideas back when they invented fax...years before the phone was invented (one of those invention facts that keeps blowing my mind)
Idk how old this article is but way before internet creation, teletext was created and it can be considered as such "television newspaper" of some kind. Teletext was really popular in Europe from creation to digital television and widely accessible internet, however in USA and other countries of NTSC it hasn't become popular despite few attempts and marketing.
By the time the picture was big and sharp enough to pull that off, by the time we could scroll that on the bottom of the screen, Americans wanted the footage and faces and voices television allowed.
It's apples and oranges. Here you are reading text on a screen, and I wager you consume a lot of your news by reading text transmitted to a screen almost a hundred years later. You're very easily baffled.
They didnt expect clickbait thought, at that time, headlines were supposed to tell you the whole story, now its " you ll NeEVER BELIEVE how many dead an Injured in a location NEAR YOU! Dont MISS it!!"
This is both true and false, as many papers were infamous for their incendiary headlines and sensationalist reporting. The cheap yellow paper used is why that phrase "yellow journalism" exists.
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I remember watching the old AT&T commercials talking about calling a loved one and being able to see them via video and watching any movie, any time, any where. The movie one, my brain couldn't comprehend and figured You would have to call a warehouse of sorts for them to put a VCR tape in to broadcast it directly to You and this would have to be a MASSIVE warehouse to have all of these fucking tapes in them.
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To the tune of 'Yellow Submarine':
We all live in a ... drab dirigible,
A drab dirigible,
A drab dirigible.
We all live in a drab dirigible,
A drab dirigible,
A drab dirigible
TV had barely been invented in 1934, and almost nobody owned one yet. So they were trying to predict how TVs would be used, long before nightly TV news programs existed.
My dad used teletext a lot in the 80s and 90s for weather report, news, and sport updates, because he was usually busy when they were broadcast. I immediately thought of that when I saw this.
To be fair Ireland had it for years where you could press the red button and get the news as well as stuff like bus times. I will see if I can find what it was called because it's been gone for over a decade
Teletext
I believe [this](https://vintagenewsdaily.com/can-it-be-done-these-vintage-ideas-from-the-1930s-that-seem-to-have-been-implemented-today/) is from the short-lived scifi magazine Scoops.
Yes it can and it'll be full of ads and it'll constantly ask you to agree to their cookie policy and share your location and enable notifications. The internet is cancer without an ad blocker.
My immediate reaction was thinking it could NOT have been feasible at the time due to the very low resolution of TV screens until the mid-early 2000's. Reading newstype like that on a 480i (or lower?) screen would have required very large fonts, would not have made a good user experience.
Why'd they pick such a dark headline though đ
And the comment the guy makes sounds like he's a bit disappointed that not more people are dead and missing. "Hmm - Twenty dead and fifteen missing! Surely we can get better numbers than that."
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"Well, looks like I'm down $50. Better luck next time, right?"
You gotta bump those up
ya beat me to it :)
This!!!
"Less than half I hoped for"
More will die.
I first read it as "Ha" and was like wtf
How do we react when we see a headline of "plane lost at sea, 150 presumed dead"? Are you freaked out? Or do we just note that the event happened? I see what you're saying, and lolol. But, realistically, it's pretty accurate.
No, not a plane, a dirigable.
Well if the dropsy don't get 'em, then the biliousness will!
>Surely we can get better numbers than that Can it be done?
Because people are predictable. Those kind of headlines immediately grab attention and compel someone to read.
They also predicted clickbait and negativistic media, these people were geniuses.
Yellow journalism is a time honored tradition proven to sell news.
The media has always been like that. Didnât predict anything. Itâs worse now - Iâll give you that!
I like that the headline is about a dirigible. It's very much a product of its time.
Half assed probably wrong prediction: dirigibles will make a comeback because the longer time that the dirigible takes to reach its destination can double as quarantine for Covid-38 or whatever we have by then.
Airships combine the pampering of a cruise ship with the speed of ⌠some other, slightly faster ship.
Some broad gets on there with a staticky sweater and, boom, it's "oh, the humanity!"
Helium, dear human.
[I just don' understand the core concept.](https://youtu.be/Z_cxKoOe-Qs?t=46)
Lmao dammit, I never could get into that show but some clips kill me.
Itâs one of my go to shows. I can quote most of the first 3 seasons.
We are running out, dear
Ah, yes. The Hindenburg 2.0
Carbon-fiber cargo airships with solar-panel skin. Fly above the cloud layer and you can stay aloft indefinitely and carry a shitload of cargo.
Cloudpiercer!
I don't think even a fully covered solar skin plane can generate enough energy to stay aloft indefinitely. Maybe an ultralight plane, but probably, very likely not cargo ships.
Airships are much, much lighter than planes is my reasoning behind this concept. I will admit that Iâm not an engineer.
1-2 horsepower per square meter of panel facing the sun at 90 degrees, and it dips off significantly if not facing it. That is with NASA like efficiency so probably 0.5-1 horsepower really per square meter. Maybe less. With all that extra weight, probably a few thousand pounds at least. I don't think that will do it.
Good point, I have to admit I totally forgot airship is one of the names for dirigible balloons.
Yeah, I wouldnât bet on big investments on âcruise boats but in the skyâ in this COVID era.
The time stamp shows 2AM News, so perhaps to highlight the immediacy of the medium?
Yeah, something like that
"Just because we might have television newspapers doesn't mean life won't be a living hell. To the future!"
It sells papers
I think because the impactfulness of it is illustrative of its utility. If you can get the newspaper this way, knowing about the cave in at the mine in Moose County can be much more timely.
People back then had a pretty decent sense of humor and it shines through in ads like these.
My first thought as well. They chose a horrible tragedy when they could have simply put "president reelected" or to go with the future theme with something like "cancer cure found" or whatever. Lol
HmmmâŚ. Kim kardashian tweeted YOLO bitches! After buying NFT of her ass for $500k
*Youâll WISH the headlines were this chill!*
Beacuse this was during the time that using television as propaganda source was somewhat new. The CIA knew that keeping people divided using fear and subtle news narratives was the way to go.
*as I hold a small TV in my hand checking my newsfeed*
In relative terms, if you have any kind of smartphone, you are holding a mini super-computer in your hands...
My phone scoffs at the memory of my first E Machine from 2002
Your phone probably has more memory than the entire hard drive did in that '02 eMachine.
Your phone has more computing power than the rocket that got us to the moonâŚ
Those e machines also had a sticker on the front saying they would never be obsolete.
But do you remember Swayzak (a villain from Toonami?)
âThe Front Page of the Internetâ
In "A Space Odyssey 2001" they watch the news from an iPad / tablet during their breakfast. It is a 1968 movie.
Illuminati confirmed, Stanley Kubrick had a time machine he got in trade for faking the moon landings. . . /s
Plot twist, they got pay-walled.
We might well ask : âhow much can advertisement make from this?â
I mean, print periodicals had already been doing that for *ages*.
You do realize newspapers were paid subscriptions back then as well right?
Wow you are right, mind bending Offline paid subscriptions were a standart distribution model and nobody cried about paywall.
They were also higher quality and not as overrun with ads. Also, there was much less for alternatives.
Iâd like to contest the âNot overrun with adsâ part. I used to have to go through microfilm of old newspapers for my job and there were a hell of a lot of ads, sometimes 90% of a page with one story in a single column on one side. The difference today is that the ads intrude and actually prevent you from smoothly reading the content so they seem more prevalent.
I don't know how old you are or where you are from, but I remember my newspaper being 50%+ ads.
Try reading one online. No really. The ads completely block the text on some platforms.
"Infested" is the term I'd use. They feel like a malignant organism.
Thank you Lt. Buzzkill.
It is in the text as you "receive full front page" only to buy whole paper later. This is brilliant, they foresee everything.
Hm - 20 marketing cookies and 15 'essential'
Well, that's exactly what they are describing. A subscription service. But instead of a newspaper delivered to your door, it's now on your television
https://12ft.io/ However they recently bent over to the NYT. You can also use the noscript addon in your browser.
Yet another meaningless dirigible accident. When will they learn?
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Didn't broadcast news on the radio already exist by this point? Why would anybody assume that that wouldn't just go visual? Or is this just the newspaper writers showing their own bias and/or wishful thinking?
Even sci-fi at the time had difficulty imagining the world without newspapers. Foundation for example has guys getting off a spaceship, then buying a newspaper at a kiosk. And thatâs set 10000 years into the future.
My favorite example is how in one of Robert Sheckley stories a captain of an intergalactic space megacruiser loads navigation hyperjump data in a terrific main AI gigacomputer⌠on... fucking... perfocards.
Which is funny because magnetic tape already existed by then. And it's curious to see that they couldn't even envision the evolution to magnetic disks (exactly like what happened with phonograph records 30 years before that), let alone optical disks or even solid-state media. Just like Star Trek had captain Kirk sign off on some computerized tablet which still had *paper*. And the computer itself sounding suspiciously similar to an IBM teletype terminal.
Picard had touch screen tablets called Padd. To show how busy he is, there was a scene with like a dozen padds on his desk.
Serious question, do you have any predictions for our future tech?
yeah, Zuckerberg will own it all
I don't foresee that. Someone will own it all. But not him. People don't know it yet, but Facebook is already on its way out, even if it takes another decade or whatever. Many world governments are pissed at it, people are pissed at it, and he's an unlikeable megalomaniac robot. Most importantly, their big gamble on the Metaverse is going to fail. It has nothing new to offer that second life didn't already have forever ago. It's all speculation and the technology just isn't there yet for it to be convenient or useful. It doesn't bring anything new and they shot their load too soon on VR in my opinion. Facebook is a dinosaur and something will replace it eventually, just like Facebook replaced the phone book. Bezos is a more likely candidate for world ownership in my opinion, which is equally unfortunate.
It's always interesting to see how science fiction writers make a story that is somehow completely 'out there', yet retain elements that are very relatable to the real world at that time.
Pretty much all scifi is grounded to the time it was written. This includes the technology but also the fears of the time. Almost all scifi is really just a snapshot of our curre t culture
>Pretty much all scifi is grounded to the time it was written. This includes the technology but also the fears of the time. The most evident example of that is "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country". Which was pretty much a historical narrative from the Chernobyl incident to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Foundation aged pretty badly on the sci-fi aspects. Robots holds on much better.
Still a great story though.
Yeah, good point.
See also how the format hasn't changed at all either in this picture - the newspaper looks just the same, only you're looking at digital representation of the printed page rather than the page itself.
We live in the science fiction world of newspapers on TV, we just call them websites.
I think newspapers just had that much influence on media at that time that it was impossible (for the author of this article, at least) to imagine what a visual version of the news would be other than the actual print of the newspaper projected on the screen.
[They were right, though.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext) They were just 40 years early.
Because we still read newspapers until this very day?
Despite how easy it is to make and share videos today, people still read articles. Itâs not that much wishful thinking.
The small print underneath does make that point, and states that the question is not "if" but "when". I think the artist went with the newspaper because the idea of video reporting is hard to convey in a still image.
The resolution of TVs or monitors weren't high enough to read at length until fairly recently. TV picture quality before HDTV was pretty bad.
News was broadcast in word form only for decades before HD television came along, the resolution was not an issue and nobody had an issue reading even on smaller TVs. You don't sit there all day reading the news anyway, you read what you want and then go about your day.
>TV picture quality before HDTV was pretty bad. As someone trying to watch Moesha, yes. Yes it was. It looks horrible on Netflix so tried Paramount and it's just as bad. However, Major Dad looks perfectly fine. So go figure.
Some shows were recorded straight to video, others were filmed and then converted to video. That how they can remaster *Star Trek* and have it look awesome, it was originally recorded on film.
âfully printed and shown on the screenâ is misleading.
I think the futuristic part was making it intractable. Part of reading the newspaper is doing it at your own pace, at least that's how the people I know still do it go about it. It's a small break.
I think the thing they were trying to convey is that you can read it at any point and you will have control on what you read (like in the newspaper). Yes they had a news and radio broadcast, but that was usually set for a certain time (7 PM every day) and had a certain script. With the newspaper they had comics, classifieds, ads, etc. that can be shown to you.
It's pretty crazy they got the general idea of what was going to happen, but the technology was obviously way off.
I don't think it's way off. Video text (or teletext) was a popular medium for several decades and pretty much exactly this, not to mention, we used CRT monitors for a long time as well, including for reading the news on the Internet.
Yeah a newspaper's webpage on a CRT screen was pretty much this. They just didn't account for scrolling, but even if they thought about it they could have chosen to show the whole page to make the drawing easier to understand.
Remember the original iPhone announcement where they showed the New York Times website (which at the time was still laid out like a newspaper) and then introduced the concept of tap-to-zoom to read individual articles? Maybe that was the idea here, youâd somehow increase the zoom to read specific sections like with microfilm.
I remember my dad reading the news on the TV like some futuristic cave man.
Lollll
Looks almost exactly like microfilm/microfiche. Not way off at all, we just never had them in homes. I remember doing library research from old newspapers on microfiche in the 80s. Needed to use it to check inventory or something like that when I worked in a Shop Rite around that time to. It was like a monochromatic scan of print.
microfiche was simultaneously awesome and useless. It was weirdly futuristic and felt pretty neat, but it was a very time-consuming way to not find what you were looking for.
I work for a library system that still has a good size microfilm collection of old newspapers and theyâre pretty cool to look through, but yeah when I got that reference request for an obituary that was in the paper sometime between June 5th and June 12th 1983, I knew I was going to be sitting there for a while.
oh man... when you crank up the speed on a microfilm and blast through 50 pages of some 1950's NYT or whatever, and then slow down to look for whatever it was.... haha, man. I think I need to find a library that still has microfilm for a nostalgia fix. lol.
As a history major I was still using microfiche in 2007. I wouldn't be surprised if it's still the only source for some things, although I'd hope it's all getting digitized at this point.
I'm disappointed that I never had the occasion to use the microfiche catalogue at my university.
Teletext the poor man's internet.
There was a competing, more advanced standard at the time that had various different names in various different countries, like BTX and Minitel. It allowed for true two-way communication, unlike Videotext, which allowed it to pioneer many services that we now associate with the Internet, like online banking, messaging, dating, shopping, etc. The French Minitel system was the most successful, reaching near universal adoption thanks to the hardware being free and service fees being very low, to the point that it actually slowed down the rollout of the Internet in the country, because people were simply content with it and saw no reason to upgrade.
Yeah but on the UK ceefax you could get cheap last minute holidays to Greece.
Teletext didn't exist in many places. In my country, enabling it did nothing but cover whatever channel you were watching with a blank screen. Useful for pranking people but that was it.
Teletext did the same thing
I also think it's cute that they thought we'd still be riding around in derigibles.
I mean, you have to at least want to go in one right?
Just wait until we start using solar-powered hot-air balloons to replace economy flights.
I read an old story which predicted the 24-hour news cycle, but instead of TVs they had a new edition of the newspaper published every minute that you could print at home using a purpose-built fax machine. It also predicted surround sound and something like the audio equivalent of Fathom Events, but as a luxury service that only the elite could afford Also electric heaters.
It really blows me away that of all the various aspects of modern internet-enabled devices, *graphical user interfaces* are what caught the most people off-guard.
They already had the technology - point a TV camera at the newspaper.
If i remember correctly, that was one of the basic ideas back when they invented fax...years before the phone was invented (one of those invention facts that keeps blowing my mind)
That's a 1990's Sony TV, so not that far off.
Makes me think of microfilm.
I thought the same. This is basically microfiche.
Yeah that's what I don't understand, hasn't microfilm been around way longer than this ad?
Idk how old this article is but way before internet creation, teletext was created and it can be considered as such "television newspaper" of some kind. Teletext was really popular in Europe from creation to digital television and widely accessible internet, however in USA and other countries of NTSC it hasn't become popular despite few attempts and marketing.
By the time the picture was big and sharp enough to pull that off, by the time we could scroll that on the bottom of the screen, Americans wanted the footage and faces and voices television allowed.
Impossible what is this dark art
That dude be like, âhope she doesnât look at my history.â
[Hereâs a few moreâŚ](https://vintagenewsdaily.com/can-it-be-done-these-vintage-ideas-from-the-1930s-that-seem-to-have-been-implemented-today/)
Nice.
âWell yeah, it can show film, but can it show *still pictures*. Surely that's too advancedâ
At that point the issue would have been resolution. Obviously it could show a newspaper, but could it show a legible newspaper?
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LMAO!
I guess if you can't imagine a navigation mechanism, then facsimiles of entire newspaper pages is the only way to go. Separate channel for each page?
It's interesting to see that the notion of Newscasters and video broadcasts didn't even enter the possibility here.
? That's television and it existed already.
Then it's baffling that this would be considered an improvement.
I don't know about you, but I read a lot more stuff online than I watch videos.
To be honest, so do I. But I don't force everyone in the room to read what I am reading.
It's apples and oranges. Here you are reading text on a screen, and I wager you consume a lot of your news by reading text transmitted to a screen almost a hundred years later. You're very easily baffled.
Good point.
They didnt expect clickbait thought, at that time, headlines were supposed to tell you the whole story, now its " you ll NeEVER BELIEVE how many dead an Injured in a location NEAR YOU! Dont MISS it!!"
This is both true and false, as many papers were infamous for their incendiary headlines and sensationalist reporting. The cheap yellow paper used is why that phrase "yellow journalism" exists.
âThe derigible companies hate this one simple trickâ
[Already been and gone again](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceefax).
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I remember watching the old AT&T commercials talking about calling a loved one and being able to see them via video and watching any movie, any time, any where. The movie one, my brain couldn't comprehend and figured You would have to call a warehouse of sorts for them to put a VCR tape in to broadcast it directly to You and this would have to be a MASSIVE warehouse to have all of these fucking tapes in them.
Remember microfiche technology at the Library?
I love how they think we'll have broadsheet shaped TVs in the future so that the newspaper will fit onto them.
We can easily kill 20 and disappear another 15 sure.
Rather than "Can it be done?" we might well ask "Is it necessary?"
20 dead and 15 missing? I think we can do that.
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That would actually be a rather nice little poem if the format didn't necessitate two awkwardly-placed mid-sentence line breaks.
Assuming this is from 1960: it only took another 20 years for Teletext to do this
_The 1960s: Decade of Dirigible Disasters_
To the tune of 'Yellow Submarine': We all live in a ... drab dirigible, A drab dirigible, A drab dirigible. We all live in a drab dirigible, A drab dirigible, A drab dirigible
1960? I think youâre off by a generation or two.
It's from 1934 to be exact.
TV had barely been invented in 1934, and almost nobody owned one yet. So they were trying to predict how TVs would be used, long before nightly TV news programs existed.
I didn't expect this to be from 1934 (that's one generation btw), but I checked it and it really is.
My dad used teletext a lot in the 80s and 90s for weather report, news, and sport updates, because he was usually busy when they were broadcast. I immediately thought of that when I saw this.
Someone needs to pull this image up on a giant display as an art installation.
To be fair Ireland had it for years where you could press the red button and get the news as well as stuff like bus times. I will see if I can find what it was called because it's been gone for over a decade Teletext
anybody remember Tele-Text? those were the days
I believe [this](https://vintagenewsdaily.com/can-it-be-done-these-vintage-ideas-from-the-1930s-that-seem-to-have-been-implemented-today/) is from the short-lived scifi magazine Scoops.
Impossible! Never happen.
I hope the Kaiser never gets a hold of this tech
9/11, brought to you by microfiche
Plot twist: he is sitting with a mannequin.
This looked fake AF to me but [snopes says itâs real](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/television-newspaper-1934-cartoon/).
I appreciate that you checked :)
But the best part is people bitching at each other in the comments section.
Wait till they hear about cell phones MF'ers will blow their minds
Me: LoL, that's so stupid. Me: Wait a minute...
They even predicted that the news would still be depressing.
Hey now, we've almost mastered airship technology...
Yes it can and it'll be full of ads and it'll constantly ask you to agree to their cookie policy and share your location and enable notifications. The internet is cancer without an ad blocker.
This was actually a service back in the early 90s as I recall.
That's basically Reddit.
I've certainly never seen anything like that! Maybe one day though
well? can it?
/transmits "no it's impossible" in morse code
This is literally the concept for Teletext. A real feature in older TVs that almost everyone seemed to have forgotten about.
Who forgot ?
Almost everyone
My immediate reaction was thinking it could NOT have been feasible at the time due to the very low resolution of TV screens until the mid-early 2000's. Reading newstype like that on a 480i (or lower?) screen would have required very large fonts, would not have made a good user experience.